For the second time, a notorious drink-driver will be allowed to have a brand new identity in a fresh town.

A crash involving a truck and a car has downed power lines on State Highway 1 in south Canterbury.

Warkworth resident Bob Scott writes on the planned motorway north of Auckland - the 'Holiday Highway'

Pleas to make notorious intersection safer ignored for years, says councillor.

Police have named one of two men who died in a horrific crash near Oamaru in north Otago this morning.

One motorist is dead and a man is lucky to be alive after two cars collided on a rural Waikato road, sending one vehicle somersaulting through the air and leaving the other impaled by fence posts.

Witnesses have described desperate attempts to save the motorists involved in a fiery crash in Napier yesterday morning.